record number of four Chapman University students have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for 2013-2014, enabling them to study, teach and conduct research abroad after graduation this May.

Seniors Azriel Dror, Cambria Findley-Grubb, Erika Sanders and Nou Vang represent the largest single class of students to enter the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. It is a significant number of students to send in one year, especially as competitive applications to the prestigious foreign study program rise, says Eileen Jankowski, Ph.D., assistant professor and director of fellowships and scholar programs at Chapman.

“Our students have accomplished something extraordinary,” Jankowski says. “Last year the student Fulbright Program received more than 14,000 applications and awarded a total of 2,774 grants. This year’s statistics will likely be very similarly proportioned. Our students thus join a unique group of outstanding individuals who demonstrated the academic, leadership and service characteristics that earned them the right to call themselves Fulbright Scholars.”

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